April 08, 2004

By: Humera Khandal
Website: http://www.teeth-whitening-smiles.com

Dental Professionals – Get That Perfect Smile

Clients of dental professionals are increasingly expecting to receive the highest quality and most natural looking dental prostheses on the market. In answer to this, Montreal-based CYNOVAD – Cybernetic Innovations for Dentistry - a leading developer of technological tools and processes for modern dentistry – has developed several innovative technologies and registered more than ten patents.

The ShadeScan, the Pro50 and the WaxPro support dental professionals by integrating digital dental technologies into their everyday practice in a seamless manner. CYNOVAD intends to become a major prosthesis production centre, offering the best enabling technologies to its partners. These three technologies are the wave of the future for dental professionals as these products are making an optimal use of the most advanced CAD/CAM technology solutions to maximize the quality of prosthesis and production process efficiency says Naoum Araj, President and CEO of CYNOVAD.

Patient expectations have dramatically evolved over the past twenty years. In this day and age, almost everyone wants to keep their teeth for life and very few people are asking for removable prosthesis. Aesthetic appearance and first-quality prostheses have become basic standards. Last year, more than 100 million crowns and bridges were produced in North America, Europe and Japan and this market is growing at a steady pace.

ShadeScan is the first system ever to achieve comprehensive dental color measurement. Portable and independent from a computer, ShadeScan is the leading instrument in its category. It communicates the essential parameters defining the visual appearance of a tooth, for quality control in dental laboratories and chairside applications at the dentist, such as the monitoring of tooth whitening procedures.

Pro50 consists of a groundbreaking proprietary CAD-CAM process, designed to automate the manufacturing of prosthetic elements such as crowns and bridges. It involves ultra-rapid scanning and unique automatic CAD Software that helps increasing dental laboratory productivity while assuring custom design and clinical efficacy of each prosthesis.

WaxPro uses rapid manufacturing technology to automate the production of wax-ups thus improving the quality and throughput of the dental prosthetic fabrication process - up to 150 wax-up units can be created per 8-hour shift. Waxing is a critical step in the making of porcelain fused to metal and pressed-ceramic crowns and bridges.

The industrialization process of prosthesis manufacturing is simply one facet of the paradigm shift that will occur in the dentistry services sector over the coming years. CYNOVAD contributes to making this process a fruitful experience for all those involved, added Mr. Araj Our ultimate goal is to make digital dentistry available and easily accessible to dental professionals across the globe.

Author Notes:

Humera Khandal contributes and publishes news editorial to http://www.teeth-whitening-smiles.com.  Everything you need to know to get a whiter, brighter smile!